Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden and his Brotherhood of Blood were on the trail of the Dawson Gang when they were ambushed by their quarry. Now, only Tilden and a civilian tracker remain to take down the outlaws.

In the twilight of his years, Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden looks back on his life as a lawdog, and the time he recollects most vividly is when he rode with the Brotherhood of Blood, hunting down criminals deemed beyond justice who would never see the inside of a courtroom. The Coltrane brothers butchered most of the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter, Daisy. But when a girl down in Texas claims to be Daisy Cassidy, Tilden smells...